{"id":4587,"date":"2024-08-26T21:04:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/?p=4587"},"modified":"2024-08-26T21:05:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:05:19","slug":"ballys-break-ground-this-week-on-chicagos-first-permanent-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/ballys-break-ground-this-week-on-chicagos-first-permanent-casino\/","title":{"rendered":"Bally&#8217;s break ground this week on Chicago&#8217;s first permanent casino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bally's is set to break ground this week (08\/26 through 08\/30) on Chicago's first permanent casino. The Bally's Chicago casino will be the largest in the state, with 3,300 slots, 173 table games, an outdoor music venue, a 3,000-seat entertainment center, a 500-room hotel tower, and a two-acre public park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Wong, Bally\u2019s Chicago general manager, issued a statement rebutting critics: \u201cOur commitment to this project has never wavered, and we are on track for a September 2026 opening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bally plans to take possession of the River West site at 777 W. Chicago Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ballys-river-north-chicago.webp?resize=640%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4588\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ballys-river-north-chicago.webp?w=840&amp;ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ballys-river-north-chicago.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ballys-river-north-chicago.webp?resize=768%2C433&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ballys-river-north-chicago.webp?resize=744%2C420&amp;ssl=1 744w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ballys-river-north-chicago.webp?resize=640%2C361&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ballys-river-north-chicago.webp?resize=681%2C384&amp;ssl=1 681w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ballys-river-north-chicago.webp?resize=150%2C85&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bally&#8217;s is set to break ground this week (08\/26 through 08\/30) on Chicago&#8217;s first permanent casino. The Bally&#8217;s Chicago casino will be the largest in the state, with 3,300 slots, 173 table games, an outdoor music venue, a 3,000-seat entertainment center, a 500-room hotel tower, and a two-acre public park. Mark Wong, Bally\u2019s Chicago general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_metasync_otto_title":"","_metasync_otto_description":"","_metasync_otto_keywords":"","_metasync_otto_og_title":"","_metasync_otto_og_description":"","_metasync_otto_twitter_title":"","_metasync_otto_twitter_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_aioseo_title":"","_aioseo_description":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[757,444,445,33],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago","tag-ballys","tag-ballys-casino","tag-casino","tag-chicago"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image1_900x506x1920-1080-0-0.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4591,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions\/4591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}